Remakes can be a great thing, except (in my view) in 2 cases:
1- When a remake gets a coat of paint and gets called a new game (my own personal beef with several Zelda games)
2- When a Company stops trying new things, new franchises, new titles, new stuff to -instead- work on just remakes or rebuilding the same game over and over. (Hellooooo big slice of Megaman)
For this i gather a couple of things:
One is that nintendo is only partially faulty of this. Because, even though they repaint their property and send it out as new quite often, they still work on new stuff at the same time.
Secondly, my personal respect towards the Final Fantasy franchise, that to my eyes, is one of the largest franchises ever to take risks with it's branding. Some of it pays off, some don't... at least i can see the desire to innovate and improve there, even if it's not always effective.
I have very little interest on the Soulcalibur franchise, even though i love the gameplay from when back when it was called Soul Edge. But the company did get points with me when they decided to actually Ditch a lot of characters and relaunch the franchise with new faces... There is not a lot of room to stretch on Fighting Games, so i can respect that. Even though most of the Soulcalibur games have actually being Remakes with tiny increments that get called new games.
On Squeenix case, even thouhg i praise some of their inniatives, i still get annoyed by the constant relaunch of old titles. Not because i have a problem with new audiences have access to polished versions of pretty good games on any platform they like, but mostly because Squeenix quite often neglect several of their great games that don't get such treatment because, well at some point you just got to believe that their research numbers really show that people really really want another release of Final Fantasy 4 ou 1 and 2 with updated content... not so much from 6, or Xenogears or Vagrant Story or SaGa....
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